This in from a freelance multimedia researcher – can you help?
Hi Will,
‘After securing footage for a client of mine the license falling through so I am back at square one with no time left.
I am after footage that shows traditional dancing from: Germany, Greece, Spain and Turkey (please no Sufi’s or belly dancers). I only want to see your lovely footage if it has been shot in the last 20 years, in colour and can be used for commercial purposes online for 12 months. My budget is handsome.

• Send your links and footage samples to [email protected] – and I will forward them to the researcher directly.

Photo/Video Editor – London – GBR

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The EMEA Visual Team seeks an experienced photo editor to work across digital, social and the Bloomberg terminal, with a proven track record of producing stills and video content. The editor will join the team responsible for all aspects of Bloomberg’s daily photo & video coverage across the region. The candidate must have a proven track record of assigning and managing photographers and be capable of servicing multiple stakeholders, whilst managing competing priorities.
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Photo: Tim Page, under fire with Martin Stuart Fox at la Drang. Photographed by Steve Northup. Ia Drang Valley, in the central highlands of VN, on March 30, 1966. The scene was a terribly battle between members of A Company, 1/12, 1st Cav. They were very badly out maned, and we came close to losing everybody. Martin and I were a reporter/photographer team for United Press international. Tim was working for Time-Life. The battle took place near the Chu Pong massif, a well known bad neighborhood. Northrup found them behind the log and offered them a sip of his flask, Cordon Bleu. photo supplied

On Friday, May 22, the Newseum (Washington, D.C) will open “Reporting Vietnam” a provocative new exhibit that marks the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, America’s first televised war. The exhibit explores the dramatic stories of how journalists brought news about the war to a divided nation. It will be on display through Sept. 12, 2016.
Powerful photos and news footage, evocative music and more than 90 compelling artifacts, historic newspapers and magazines will take visitors back to experience a time when America was at war and young people were rejecting the conservative values of their parents. Included are more than 100 dramatic images, including memorable Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs that have come to symbolize the struggle both in Vietnam and at home. Interactive kiosks in the exhibit showcase interviews with the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers who took some of the most iconic images of the war, and the memorable protest songs that provided the soundtrack for a generation.

Where: Newseum
When: Starts Friday, May 22, at 9 a.m. until September 2016

Photo of Ut, camera, light meter, envelope and press passes: Loan, Nick Ut – photo supplied

Thanks for the press opening invite Alexis – next time!

Melchor Sangro, Director at stock photo agency LatinStock, sent us this video about a new initiative called Animal Copyrights just launched.
Hello Will,
I hope you are well.
Please find attached the launching video of our latest campaign AnimalCopyrights in collaboration with WWF Spain. I think it’s an interesting initiative that’s worth sharing with your readers. Ad agency Cheil Spain, worked with us and WWF to create the campaign.

The FootageNews.com.com team have been woking on our Press Photo History Project this week ….we recently had a new cash donation after helping reunite a retired Daily Mirror newspaper reporter/photographer John Smith with his photo archive. (search: JScollection). That donation has enabled us to start installing and tweaking a new wordpress theme and dealing with the backlog of orphan images licensing requests.

ITN Source, the footage licensing division of ITN in London just signed up with global crowd funding platform Indiegogo ‘to provide the necessary tools for documentary filmmakers to achieve maximum success’. In addition to supporting research and providing ITN Source footage, the partnership will also give Indiegogo campaigners direct access to view full television programmes and films from the ITV Studios collection that ITN Source represents. Indiegogo is democratising the way ideas get funded and realized across the globe. From 2013-2014 alone, funds raised by film campaigns in the UK have increased 75% a number that will only grow with this new partnership.
Andy Williams, MD of ITN Source, said: “For those of us with a passion for documentaries it is vitally important that we all play our part in ensuring they get made with as much creative freedom as they deserve. We hope that our partnership with Indiegogo will help achieve that objective in some small way.”
Miranda Fleming, Head of UK Film & Creative for Indiegogo said: “This is a fantastic partnership which will give global documentary filmmakers a unique opportunity to access the knowledge, expertise and archival footage from ITN source for use in their Indiegogo campaign pitch films. I very much hope this will contribute to the ever-growing number of documentary campaigns on Indiegogo. Our partnership with ITN Source reinforces Indiegogo’s position as the ideal partner for filmmakers throughout their creative journeys, from fundraising to distribution.”
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